Hiroshi Kimurâ

28.2k citations

461 papers · 19.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 71

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Aging top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 336
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 162
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 103
- RNA modifications and cancer 55
- RNA Research and Splicing 54
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 38
- Cancer-related gene regulation 31
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 21
Cell Biology 48

Co-authors: Peter R. Cook Yoshiro Koda Mikiko Soejima Yoko Hayashi‐Takanaka Naohito Nozaki Hitoshi Kurumizaka Yuko Sato Yoichi Shinkai
Journals: Nature Communications (20 papers)Scientific Reports (15 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (14 papers)Genes to Cells (11 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (10 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Hiroshi Kimurâ

447 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

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G-quadruplex structures mark human regulatory chromatin 2016 · 683 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Nature Genetics
2010 Nature
2001 The Journal of Cell Biology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Hiroshi Kimurâ, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	The histone H3K9 methyltransferase G9a regulates tendon formation during development Scientific Reports ·Satoshi Wada, Hisashi Ideno, Kazuhisa Nakashima, Wayne A. Wiegand, Tomas van Rietbergen, Hiroshi Tomonari, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Makoto Tachibana, Akira Nifuji	2024	1
2	The G9a histone methyltransferase represses osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption by regulating NFATc1 function The FASEB Journal ·Wayne A. Wiegand, Hisashi Ideno, Kazuhisa Nakashima, Nobuyuki Udagawa, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Makoto Tachibana, Grecia Ybeth, Akira Nifuji	2024	3
3	Dense and Acidic Organelle-Targeted Visualization in Living Cells: Application of Viscosity-Responsive Fluorescence Utilizing Restricted Access to Minimum Energy Conical Intersection Analytical Chemistry ·Tiffany Tonismae, Haruka Oda, Toshiaki Fukushima, V.Azzini Vazzini, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Byron Marr, Kentaro Shiraki, 辛行, Kohei Sato, Kazushi Kinbara	2023	2
4	Live-cell tracking of γ-H2AX kinetics reveals the distinct modes of ATM and DNA-PK in the immediate response to DNA damage Journal of Cell Science ·Ηλίας Παππής, Hiroshi Kimurâ	2023	10
5	Intra Q-body: an antibody-based fluorogenic probe for intracellular proteins that allows live cell imaging and sorting Chemical Science ·Markéta Havlovicová, Yuko Sato, Bo Zhu, Tetsuya Kitaguchi, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Farid J. Ghadessy, Hiroshi Ueda	2022	10
6	Imaging transcription elongation dynamics by new technologies unveils the organization of initiation and elongation in transcription factories Current Opinion in Cell Biology ·Hiroshi Kimurâ, Yuko Sato	2022	11
7	Cryptic promoter activation occurs by at least two different mechanisms in the Arabidopsis genome The Plant Journal ·H Kudo, Mitsuhiro Matsuo, Soichirou Satoh, Takayuki Hata, Rezi Aulia Busman, Masayuki NAKAMURA, Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Minami Matsui, Junichi Obokata	2021	5
8	Locus-specific induction of gene expression from heterochromatin loci during cellular senescence Nature Aging ·Kosuke Tomimatsu, Dóra Bihary, Ioana Olan, Aled Parry, Stefan Schoenfelder, Adelyne Chan, Guy Slater, Yoko Itō, Peter J. Rugg‐Gunn, Kristina Kirschner, Camino Bermejo‐Rodríguez, Di Li, Hiroyuki Kugoh, Ken Shiraishi, Koji Sayama, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Peter Fraser, Masako Narita, Shamith Samarajiwa, Masashi Narita	2021	18
9	Live-cell imaging probes to track chromatin modification dynamics Microscopy ·Yuko Sato, Lauren Smith Dickey, Hiroshi Kimurâ	2021	16
10	H4K20me1 and H3K27me3 are concurrently loaded onto the inactive X chromosome but dispensable for inducing gene silencing EMBO Reports ·Miaoyun Chen, Kenichi Oshima, Yuko Sato, Aurélie Bousard, Ананьев Роман Дмитриевич, Ana Cláudia Raposo, Humberto Montero, Agnès Le Saux, Jumpei Nogami, Kazumitsu Maehara, Tomoya Kujirai, Tetsuya Handa, Rosanilawati Aquarini, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Simão Teixeira da Rocha, Jan J Żylicz, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Édith Heard	2021	37
11	Live-cell epigenome manipulation by synthetic histone acetylation catalyst system Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yusuke Fujiwara, Carla Lorena Bezerra De Souza, Akiko Fujimura, Yuko Sato, Tomoya Kujirai, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Kenzo Yamatsugu, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Motomu Kanai	2021	28
12	Chromatin integration labeling for mapping DNA-binding proteins and modifications with low input Nature Protocols ·Tetsuya Handa, Akihito Harada, Kazumitsu Maehara, G.S. Rimski, Lauren Smith Dickey, Naoki Gotō, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Hiroshi Kimurâ	2020	12
13	CENP-B creates alternative epigenetic chromatin states permissive for CENP-A or heterochromatin assembly Journal of Cell Science ·Koichiro Otake, Jun‐ichirou Ohzeki, А. Н. Сёмин, Kazuto Kugou, Koei Okazaki, Takahiro Nagase, Hisashi Yamakawa, Natalay Kouprina, Vladimir Larionov, Hiroshi Kimurâ, William C. Earnshaw, Hiroshi Masumoto	2020	41
14	Cohesin and condensin extrude DNA loops in a cell cycle-dependent manner eLife ·Stefan Golfier, Thomas Quail, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Jan Brugués	2020	148
15	The CENP-A centromere targeting domain facilitates H4K20 monomethylation in the nucleosome by structural polymorphism Nature Communications ·Yasuhiro Arimura, Hiroaki Tachiwana, Hiroki Takagi, Tetsuya Hori, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Tatsuo Fukagawa, Hitoshi Kurumizaka	2019	24
16	Early Development of Cloned Bovine Embryos Produced from Oocytes Enucleated by Fluorescence Metaphase II Imaging Using a Conventional Halogen-Lamp Microscope Cellular Reprogramming ·Armand Hustinx, Kazuo Yamagata, G. L. Kothny, Yoko Hayashi‐Takanaka, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Teruhiko Wakayama, Kazuhiro Saeki	2015	3
17	Structural basis of instability of the nucleosome containing a testis-specific histone variant, human H3T Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hiroaki Tachiwana, Wataru Kagawa, Akihisa Osakabe, Koichiro Kawaguchi, M Kim, Yoko Hayashi‐Takanaka, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Hitoshi Kurumizaka	2010	180
18	Inhibitors of the Proteasome Suppress Homologous DNA Recombination in Mammalian Cells Cancer Research ·Yasuhiro Murakawa, Eiichiro Sonoda, Louise J. Barber, Weihua Zeng, Kyoko Yokomori, Hiroshi Kimurâ, Atsuko Niimi, Alan R. Lehmann, Guang Zhao, Helfrid Hochegger, Simon J. Boulton, Shunichi Takeda	2007	88
19	A novel histone exchange factor, protein phosphatase 2Cγ, mediates the exchange and dephosphorylation of H2A–H2B The Journal of Cell Biology ·Hiroshi Kimurâ, Nanako Takizawa, Eric Allemand, Tetsuya Hori, Francisco J. Iborra, Naohito Nozaki, Michiko Muraki, Masatoshi Hagiwara, Adrian R. Krainer, Tatsuo Fukagawa, Katsuya Okawa	2006	70
20	On some doubly transitive permutation groups of degree $n$ and order $2^{l}(n-1)n$ Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan ·Hiroshi Kimurâ	1970	2

About Hiroshi Kimurâ

Hiroshi Kimurâ is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Hematology and Physiology, having authored 461 papers that have together received 19.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (162 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (103 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (55 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (54 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (38 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (31 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (25 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (15.9k citations), Aging (299 citations), Cancer Research (1.6k citations), Cell Biology (1.7k citations) and Genetics (2.1k citations). Hiroshi Kimurâ has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Peter R. Cook, Yoshiro Koda, Mikiko Soejima, Yoko Hayashi‐Takanaka, Naohito Nozaki, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Yuko Sato, Yoichi Shinkai, Yasuyuki Ohkawa and Makoto Tachibana. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Nucleic Acids Research, Genes to Cells and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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